WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan issued the following press release:
As President Trump continues to slow-walk a bipartisan housing affordability bill that already passed through Congress, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) is teaming up with U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and several colleagues in urging the president to unlock community development tools and promptly release $750 million in federal housing construction funds.
Earlier this month, Congress passed the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act to help build more housing, lower costs, streamline construction regulations, and curb private equity's ability to buy up single-family homes and drive up housing prices. Instead of signing the law, which passed with veto-pr...